Professor Tom Solomon CBE FRCP FMedSci
President
Professor Tom Solomon CBE FRCP FMedSci
Affiliations
The Pandemic Institute; Royal College of Physicians; Academy of Medical Sciences; National Institute for Health and Care, Research Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections Liverpool, UK; The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust
Career
I studied medicine at Wadham College, Oxford, before undertaking a PhD on central nervous system infections in Vietnam, with a Wellcome Trust Advanced Training Fellowship. I then became a Clinical Lecturer in Neurology, Medical Microbiology and Tropical Medicine at the University of Liverpool, and was awarded a Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellowship. This included two years as a visiting scientist at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas. I was made a Senior Lecturer in Neurology in Liverpool in 2005, and awarded a Medical Research Council Senior Clinical Fellowship the same year. I became Chair of Neurological Science in 2007, and Head of the newly formed Institute of Infection and Global Health in 2010. In 2021 I was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday honours and became Vice President (International) of the Academy of Medical Sciences. In 2024 I became Academic Vice President of the Royal College of Physicians of London.
Research
I head the Brain Infections Group, which, with more than 9 million pounds in funding in recent years, works to reduce the burden of neurological disease in the UK and globally.
Public engagement
This has included national TV and Radio work, as well as widening participation work with local schools. Raising awareness and charity funding my Running Mad Professor video on YouTube got nearly 20,000 hits: I won the Guinness World Record for the fastest marathon dressed as a doctor in 2010, and more recently a Guinness World Record for the Largest Human Image of an Organ – the World’s Biggest Brain to celebrate the first World Encephalitis Day.
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